Some musicians try to control every detail, want credit for playing every instrument, deciding every fader level, judging every outside player’s contribution and others are pliable, unfazed to try supplying whatever they are asked to do. I’m thinking about this while reading Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of The Oppressed and the sides he articulates; oppressor and oppressed.
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Reminds also of the different ways people control or submit to being controlled in music making. Still, the thing that is behind the art that most moves me, are people able to switch sides, on some level they get it, that to consider opinions that are not their own or not even necessarily likeable to them, is a frequent ingredient behind powerful pieces.
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But more vividly, it is like the dialogue people have internally. The inner arguments between them and them or I and I, one can be the boss and the worker and forget that one is in neither, just a collection of belching synapses.